Mini Tips

A useful collection of short pieces of advice from Register members that are not in the workshop manuals. Torque settings No torque settings are given in the manuals for SVW engines. Recommended settings are: Pounds/foot nm Cylinder head 50 68 Main bearings 65-70 88-95 Big ends 30-35 41-47 Little ends […]

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MG SA - Under the hood

Overheating in the SA and VA – Part 1

by Terry Beresford, New Zealand, March 2003 After reading John Dutton’s report in the Feb. 2003 ‘Safety Fast’ on overheating in the SA and the struggle to find a solution, I think I can help with the problem. I have recently retired from owning my radiator repair business for forty-eight […]

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Fixing a VA

Overheating in the SA and VA – Part 2

by John Dutton Terry Beresford of NZ wrote an article giving his advice about overcoming the problems of overheating in an SA or VA. The subject has also been discussed in Safety Fast! more than once. Here I summarise the issue once more and cover in more detail the task of […]

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